--- title: Superstitions feel true because we remember the times they seemed to… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics description: Superstitions feel true because we remember the times they seemed to work and forget the times they did not. Who acts: Superstitions, we. A sentence of the lesson «Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/27-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/27-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong/) / 9 # Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 9 Superstitions feel true because we remember the times they seemed to work and forget the times they did not. **Who acts:** Superstitions, we · **What happens:** feel, remember, seem, work, forget · **To what, where:** times This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Superstitions, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:027-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong.lesson:9 # text = Superstitions feel true because we remember the times they seemed to work and forget the times they did not. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 027-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Superstitions superstition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | Superstitions | | | | | true *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **remember** | present | we | | | | time | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seem** | past | Superstitions *= superstition* | the times *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | Superstitions *= superstition* *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **forget** | infinitive | Superstitions *= superstition* *not said here* | | | | time | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:reflection:027-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong.lesson:9`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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